White Teeth Smith Zadie

Dealing - among many other things - with friendship love war three cultures and three families over three generations one brown mouse and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle this book is written with a passion for ideas for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life.|Funny clever ... and a rollicking good read|Do believe the hype buy into it curl up with it savour every sentence then turn around and re-read|An impressive début not only for its vitality and verve but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping funny ... it has ambition wit and is unafraid|Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned sassy and philosophical all at the same time|Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic and deeply felt|An unforgettable portrait of London and one of the most talked about debuts of all time!'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' GuardianOn New Years Day 1975 the day of his almost-suicide life said yes to Archie Jones. Not OK or 'You-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started'. A resounding affirmative.Promptly seizing his second life by the horns Archie meets and marries Clara Bowden a Caribbean girl twenty-eight years his junior.Thus begins a tale of friendship of love and war of three culture and three families over three generations . . .*****'Street-smart and learned sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph'An astonishingly assured début funny and serious . . . I was delighted' Salman Rushdie|Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth The Autograph Man On Beauty NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays Changing My Mind Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories Grand Union; and the play The Wife of Willesden adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.